page_title: Andrew Hastie (politician)
section_title: Re-election and second Turnbull Government
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Hastie (politician) / Political career (2015–present) / Re-election and second Turnbull Government
caption_attribution_description: English: Andrew Hastie MP, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security with Deputy Chair Anthony Byrne MP in February 2020 photo taken by D Birch
context_page_description: Andrew William Hastie is an Australian politician who serves as the Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. He became the Federal Member for Canning with the Liberal Party in 2015, having served as a troop commander in the Special Air Service Regiment. Known as a conservative he has made controversial statements on Australia's need to "preserve our sovereignty" and defy the "expansionist" Communist Party of China. These views have been condemned as "totally intemperate" and "inflammatory" by Australian corporate leaders, then praised as a matter of "strong public interest" even "necessary, and important" by security analysts Professor Clive Hamilton and Professor Rory Medcalf. His stance led to the Government of China blocking him and his colleague James Paterson from visiting China on a study tour, demanding that they "repent" from their views.
context_section_description: Hastie stood again for the division of Canning for the 2016 Australian federal election, on Saturday 2 July. He won 56.79% of the votes under the Two-party-preferred vote against Labor opposition candidate Barry Winmar, moving his seat from being "marginal" to "fairly safe" according to the Australian Electoral Commission. He maintained a pattern of conducting regular town hall meetings in 2016, 2017, and (29 in 2017 alone) where, he says, he got the clear message "they want government to continue to provide essential services and keep them safe but otherwise stay out of their lives."  
  Hastie was appointed to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security in September 2016, and invited to chair the committee from February 2017. It's known the committee receives briefings from Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (Australia), Australian Signals Directorate and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. As such, Hastie and fellow members of the bi-partisan committee are "privy to a lot of information and intelligence briefings that other members of parliament aren't." Through his work with the PJCIS Hastie came to conclude that Australia is "facing an unprecedented threat from espionage and foreign interference, and that current laws are not adequate to deal with this threat.” At this point the source of the foreign interference was unnamed. Following its deliberations, the committee reviewed and amended the Espionage and Foreign Interference Act 2018 and Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018
caption: Anthony Byrne, a Labor MP and Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security with its Chair, Andrew Hastie MP.
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